The U.S. Supreme Court will not hear death row inmate Gary Haugenís appeal to be executed, ending his attempt to waive his appeals and force his own execution.

The court denied Haugenís petition for writ of certiorari on Tuesday. The denial is not unusual; the U.S. Supreme Court is asked to review about 7,000 cases per year and grants between 100 and 150 of those petitions.

The denial offered no explanation.

The decision effectively ends Haugenís case and ensures he will not be executed in the foreseeable future.

He received the death sentence in 2007 after he and fellow inmate Jason Van Brumwell were convicted of killing David Polin, another inmate, in 2003. The two men stabbed Polin 84 times and crushed his skull.

He dropped his appeals in 2011 and said he wanted to be executed in protest of Oregonís legal system. Gov. John Kitzhaber blocked the execution and issued a moratorium on executions during the remainder of his second governorship.

That decision was a reversal of his position from his first two terms in office when he presided over two death row executions, both at the request of inmates who, like Haugen, had asked they be carried out.

Haugen appealed that decision, and the late Washington County Circuit Court Senior Judge Timothy Alexander ruled in favor of Haugen in 2012.

The Oregon Supreme Court overturned that decision, and Haugen appealed to the federal Supreme Court. That appeal died Tuesday.

The Supreme Court decision came less than two weeks after Brumwell, Haugenís associate in Polinís murder, announced he also would waive his appeals and elect to be executed.

Brumwell came to Oregon State Penitentiary in 1996, when he was sentenced to life in prison for aggravated murder. The Oregon Supreme Court upheld his conviction and later death sentence in 2011.

It appears unlikely Kitzhaber will change his mind in Brumwellís case.

Kitzhaber has announced he is running for reelection in 2014. If he wins, he will hold office until January 2019.

The Oregon Legislature introduced a bill in 2013 that would have asked voters to eliminate capital punishment, but it died in the House Judiciary Committee. So far, no similar bills have been introduced for the 2014 legislative session.

There are 34 men and one woman on Oregon's death row. No inmate has been given a lethal injection since 1997.

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